LOS ANGELES — Drew Doughty and Dustin Brown were roomies, back when all the hockey players had roomies.

They used to talk about agents, and whether you really need a middleman to do contracts in a salary-cap age. Accounting degrees are not always required to measure the size of the pie, or how big a slice you are.

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Brown quit using agents in contract negotiations. This year, Doughty did, too. It was a little painful, since he’d known agent Mark Guy “since I was 15,” but he carried his own data into his meetings with Kings general manager Rob Blake, club president Luc Robitaille and vice president Jeff Solomon.

Doughty was not flying solo. He pointed out that the Players’ Association lawyers read the contract in detail.

“For me to look it over and just sign it, that wouldn’t have been real smart,” Doughty said.

“But Brownie and I used to talk and said, what do you need an agent for, really? My agents have done an amazing job for me, but with the 3 percent I get, the amount of money I would save was ridiculous.”

Ridiculous to the tune of $2.64 million, at that rate.

But that’s Doughty. He somehow missed the media-neutralization class that nearly every other pro athlete is forced to attend, with its own “moving forward” vocabulary.

He lays it all out there, and there’s no use wondering if $11 million per annum is going to change him. He lives for 82 hockey games plus playoffs, and he lives for winning most of them, and then he lives for friends and good times. That’s as complex as life needs to get.

Doughty was just back from Toronto, where he attended the wedding of Wayne Simmonds, former Kings’ teammate and current Philadelphia Flyer. Doughty is getting married Aug. 8. Simmonds and Trevor Lewis are two of the groomsmen — “they’re in the bridal party,” Doughty said — and Jonathan Quick’s two kids will be ring bearer and flower girl.

Last season the Kings played Philadelphia. Doughty was asked if that would be a special night because of Simmonds.

“No, I get up for all games, really, it doesn’t matter,” he said. “Unless we’re playing, like, Florida or somebody weird like that.”

Doughty also said that the passersby in Toronto always asked him if he was coming back to play with the Maple Leafs when his contract expired. After all, John Tavares is an Ontario boy and he signed with the Leafs on Sunday.

But Tavares slept under a Maple Leafs blanket when he was a kid. At his London, Ontario house, Doughty had a Kings’ clock beside his bed. General Manager Dean Lombardi saw it and remembered it when he picked Doughty second overall in the 2008 draft.

“Last time I negotiated, it was five months,” Doughty said. ‘This time it was two days. I knew I was re-signing here, I just didn’t let it be known.

“It’s so amazing being in L.A. We’re building a house, starting a family. I love being by the beach. Although Dean used to hate it when I said that.

Doughty, Brown, Quick, Jeff Carter and Anze Kopitar will be together through the 2022-23 season or beyond. Ten Kings will be 30 or older this season. This intensifies the demands on incoming rookie Gabe Vilardi, perhaps, but the old guys will be fine if Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson can match their nightly level.

Doughty has played all 82 games in each of the past four seasons. The Kings have tried to put a governor on his average time on ice. This season it was back to 26:50, two minutes fewer than in 2015, but Doughty still led the league.

His 60 points were a career-high and his plus-23 came within one of a career high. He was the Norris Trophy runner-up to Tampa Bay’s Victor Hedman, but when Michael Russo of The Athletic asked Al MacInnis, Serge Savard and Scott Stevens who their favorite active defenseman was, the Hall of Famers all voted for Doughty.

Will Doughty, 28, stay atop that heap in his mid-30s? The contract takes effect in 2019-20, and he can’t be moved in his first four years. In his next four he can specify seven destinations.

It’s the price of doing business, but Chris Paul’s chef might get a bigger check than most hockey players. Maybe Doughty’s level of play in 2023 can’t be guaranteed. Name something that is.

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